At the symposium of the first episode, a reader asked me: "Why do you want to 'watch movies for revenge'?" In fact, the first article of that book seemed to answer this question: "Sometimes, watching movies , for revenge, revenge for a mediocre life." This sentence was also printed on the cover and was frequently used in promotional activities.In fact, this article was written several years ago, and at the time of answering the question, I no longer think so, I no longer think that the reason why movies are loved by us is that they are colorful, full of wonder, can For us to avenge the calm and gloomy of life.At the symposium, my answer was: "Because movies compress time for us. Even when they pretend to show pain, they omit and falsify pain, because pain is a concept of time. Movies compress time. "

In Lu Nei's novel, there is a passage about time: "At that time, I felt that it was telling a story about time, not the distance....It confuses readers with the route, but in fact it is talking about time. .God doesn't test a person just by the journey... You feel pain, you feel that you have to fight so many boring monsters during the long journey, it's because God is far away. Until the end of the journey, They are still fighting back and forth, the pain and length are not lessened by the approach of the end point, that is because God does not promise when He will appear. Even if you can calculate the distance between yourself and God, you still It is impossible to calculate the time of that arrival, maybe you are only an inch away from God, but it will take a lifetime of time between you and God."

You know how a certain person will behave at a glance, and you still cannot avoid handing over to him. Knowing how something will end, you still cannot avoid going through the whole process one by one, even if it is full of various accidents or even surprises, one cannot be changed. The truth is that the time it takes to get from point A to point B cannot be reduced at all.The time that belongs to us is not too little, but too much. We need to fill it with various things, such as labor, games, and love, which are endless and repeated, just like Sisyphus rolling a stone up a hill.That's what makes the subway or the bus so painful and tiresome, it distills the process and makes no secret of it, its purpose is so stark: to make time pass and get us from one place to another.The greatest pain I have ever felt comes from this naked, dry, Martian-like stillness of time.

This is probably where the film can be used for our "revenge". It fills up time, making time less naked, and it also speeds up the progress of time, in a seemingly fair way.The reason why it allows us to realize our desire for "revenge" is not because it makes the head of the enemy fall, the poor win the lottery, the ordinary girl is admired by the elite in the fairy world, and the woman who goes to Africa to open a plantation encounters the creation A man who is generally favored, was taken into the sky by him in a plane, and shuttled between the blue sky and white clouds.No, neither. The essence of "revenge" is that it compresses time. A person of lofty ideals who is tortured only needs to pass out. In the next scene, he can lie down among fellow sufferers to receive comfort; men and women tortured by desire are still gnashing their teeth. Touching copper coins makes you old suddenly, and your desires have subsided; the man in the film is miserable, but he can lie in front of our eyes for two hours at most.Movies have reached a tacit understanding with us, and we know its means: to speed up life, to make time thicker in various plots, experiences, and landscapes, instead of being so barren and long.When the pain is accelerated in the film, it is not so unbearable, and even because it seems realistic and pretends to be cruel, it brings us comfort-it will end, and it will end soon.This is enough to give us similar expectations about life.

My "revenge" era was the 1990s, what era was that?It is an era full of "time waits for no one" and a time when I deeply feel the need to "seize the time". I watch four or five movies every day, and there are even more than ten movies on holidays. There is only one purpose, to make time as dense as possible .I have a clear goal and a clear point of view. Even writing and reading were just things I used to fight against time at that time. In one world, another world is generated.And now, I have reconciled with time, or in other words, I have other ways to live with time. One of the signs is that the speed and quantity of my watching movies are decreasing, and I am no longer looking for a movie that I haven't seen yet. Thoughts.I know that the future is long, and sooner or later I will see it, and it provides very limited help in the distance between me and God.

We all have to go on the road and pass the distance slowly, not so nervous - and not so serious.The relativity of feelings next to the furnace of time is up to us to try to manage, and we all have to become an Einstein in the way of understanding in the end. Thanks to Deng Lingling from Beijing News, Wang Kun and Song Yan from Yanzhao Metropolis Daily, and Li Jing, Gao Qi, Yan Xiaolin, and Wu Lei, most of the articles in this book are Published in newspapers by their hands.Of course, I would also like to thank the editors of the series Chen Li, Can Ran, Xie Zhongwei, Tan Yaozhi, the book design Jianghu, Xu Jie, Dorsey, as well as Huang Tongtong, Zuiyu, Wu Hongfei, Bai Bangni, Liu Ying, Lou Jun, Shouzhu , Cui Chuping, Lin Xiaozhu, Xiaomi, as well as "Beijing Youth Weekly", Fenghuang.com Reading Channel, Sina Reading, Sina Weibo "Wei Magazine", as well as Yufeng Library, Between the Lines Bookstore, a movie essay has such a sales volume, Even the launch of the second episode, all of this is related to them.Thank you for doing something together to make everything around you less difficult as we travel through time.

Of course, there is Douban.After watching the first episode, some netizens said that he finally understood why this book appeared on Douban's rankings and attention lists—because Douban was mentioned many times in it.In fact, I am very happy to be considered to be in complicity with the website Douban (among all the forces that enrich our time, Douban is the most lovely one).I'm even willing to equivocate and embellish, pretending that our relationship is unfathomable.